Lets Talk… Puppuccino

Especially seeing as we’ve been learning to ‘up the fats’ in our pets diet, right.

Well, no.

As soon as you look at the actual ingredients, you may think twice:

Cream

Milk

Mono and Diglycerides: stabilizers

Carrageenan

Thankfully Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food has already researched this last ingredient and written about it in Dog Naturally Magazine.

There are two types of Carrageenan, unfortunately ’human grade’ has yet to be established as ’free from potentially cancer-causing material’, and is known to induce inflammation (Tobacman, 2001) more worryingly it’s been shown to do this particularly to intestinal epithelial cells (Bhattacharrya et al. (2007) and in fact kills those cells (Bhattacharyya et al. 2008). It’s also been shown to inhibit insulin signalling (Bhattacharyya et al. 2015) and has been linked to cancer and diabetes (Cornucopia Institute, 2016) what’s worse is that this is not news as has been known since at least 1971 (Rosa et al.)

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I make my dogs their own version of the starbucks puppuchino…..I may use their cup for photo purposes but I use non dairy CocoWhip or other non dairy whipped cream! My dogs like Cocowhip made from coconut milk…….coconuts are good for dogs- of course anything in huge quantities is bad but in small or limited amounts this is better than dairy for your dog.